The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83437 Message #1533264
Posted By: Azizi
02-Aug-05 - 08:22 AM
Thread Name: Songs of Strength & Determination
Subject: RE: Songs of Srength & Determinatiion
Actually I don't recall singing the verses of "How I Got Over". For some reason I sing the chorus of that song along with fragments of another spiritual and what I think is a gospel song-both of which I learned as a child or a teenager. For me these three songs all merge together into one song. The spiritual is "Thank You Jesus" and the gospel is "King Jesus Will Roll All Burdens Away." [maybe that's a spiritual too-I'm not sure].
Here are the words to those songs as I sing them...
THANK YOU JESUS {excerpt}*
Thank you Jesus
Thank you Jesus
for my journey [this word is elongated to jour-er-er er-nee]
You brought me
from a mighty
a mighty long way
a mighty long way-ay-ay
Thank you Jesus
Thank you Jesus
for my journey.
You brought me
from a mighty
a mighty long way.
KING JESUS WILL ROLL ALL BURDENS AWAY {excerpt}
All away
All away-a-a
King Jesus will roll
all burdens away if
to Him I pray
[Church], He'll open doors wide for me,
doors I'm unable to see.
That's why I say
King Jesus will roll
all burdens away.
BTW, I sing the excerpt of "I Thank You Jesus" along with the excerpt of "King Jesus Will Roll All Burdens Away" as a medley after "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" as the word "mighty" is in two of those songs and the phrase "a mighty long way" in one song links up with the phrase "all away" in the other song...